I've just had bought my new N95 8GB when I discovered (thanks Tommy) that Google Maps for mobile is about to use a technology called My Location :

My Location is a new beta technology from Google that uses cell tower
identification to provide you with approximate location information, so
it will work on phones without GPS. Simply fire up Google Maps for
mobile, press [0], and the map will indicate your approximate location
by centering on a blue circle.If
you do have a GPS-enabled device, My Location can actually complement
it. My Location kicks in faster than GPS in most cases, so you can
access your location even faster on the map. It also works reliably
indoors (unlike GPS) and doesn't drain your phone battery at the rate
that GPS does.

This is the goal of the new blog : We love open source in S60 java and we are trying to enable more of it in our platform. But It is always interesting to hear your opinions. Why do you think there are not as many mobile java projects? What about converting those existing desktop and enterprise projects to mobile? What are your candidates for converting to mobile?

A friend points me out this cool web application for testing your iPhone sites and pages without having and iPhone : iPhoney.

From the product site : Looking for a way to see how your web creations will look on iPhone? Look no further. iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It's the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it's free.

iPhoney is not an iPhone simulator but instead is designed for web developers who want to create 320 by 480 (or 480 by 320) websites for use with iPhone. It gives you a canvas on which to test the visual quality of your designs.

It seams very cool and very useful for who can't have a working iPhone (like europeans) to test their web pages.

The monthly Symbian Community Newsletter is out with a lot of interesting articles, tutorials and whitepapers.If you're a mobile developer as well a Flash Lite developer you can't miss this great booklet :"Essential Symbian
OS" booklet Performance Tips has been updated and is available to download

Moreover have a look at these documents :

Learning about Symbian OS: With the recent spurt in the
proliferation of Symbian smartphones, increasing numbers of developers are
looking to learn more about Symbian OS. Mark Shackman looks at some of the
resources available, for everyone from seasoned developer to university
student.

(via CNET New) : Microsoft's technology enables people who use Nokia cell phones to share protected pieces of content--like music, games or videos--between phones, PCs and other devices.

Nokia, the world's largest cell-phone maker, will license Microsoft's PlayReady digital rights management (DRM) technology, and build it into its S60 software, the most widely used software platform in the cell-phone industry.

Nokia's S60 software, built on U.K.-based Symbian's operating system, is used extensively in Nokia's lineup, but also in advanced cell phones of LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics.

Its closest rival is Microsoft's own Windows Mobile, but analysts said the deal should benefit both.

Nokia Forum has released a new service calleda RDA (Remote Device Access) that allows mobile developers to test and debug their mobile applications using remote device access (via Tommi).Nokia introduced some months ago this possibility but now it's live !

Remote Device Access (RDA) technology enables remote access to
mobile devices over the Internet. The system consists of a device pool
connected to a server, and users connecting to the server in order to
remotely use the devices. Once a user has connected to a device, the
screen of the device is transfered to the user’s desktop in real time.
In addition, the user can install applications on the device, transfer
files, and analyze log files in real time. This enables developers to
test their mobile applications and services on various Nokia devices
based on Symbian OS. RDA is an Internet-based solution, and the
requirements for using the service are a standard Web browser and Java™
Web Start (typically comes with Java Runtime Environment, JRE).

Andrea Trasatti sent me an email with this great news : dotMobi, the company behind .mobi – the first and only Internet
address designed specifically for mobile phones – today announced its
plans to create a definitive database of mobile handset information
from across the world.

The dotMobi mobile device database, scheduled to launch in late
2007, will make developing mobile applications significantly easier and
less expensive. While developers of PC-based content need to address
differences between a small number of browsers like Windows Internet
Explorer or Apple Safari, mobile content developers must accommodate
the differences among thousands of phones with different display types
and browsers.

If the iPhone’s Web browser is so good, why can’t it play video on Web sites I visit?

At launch, the iPhone version of the Safari browser
is missing some plug-ins needed for playing common types of Web videos.
The most important of these is the plug-in for Adobe’s Flash
technology. Apple says it plans to add that plug-in through an early
software update, which I am guessing will occur within the next couple
of months. However, a separate program included on the iPhone can play
a limited selection of videos from YouTube, and the phone can play
videos you purchase from Apple’s iTunes store, and certain videos you
create yourself.